High taxes will force us all out

Wednesday

May 30, 2007 at 12:01 AM

To The Editor: Your home is next. We have all seen in the Times-News sit down, grab-your-heart property tax increases as much as 260 percent.

This rate applies to you and me, grandma, grandpa and other senior citizens. The much lower rate applies to our commissioners and their subdivisions. We are about to see our land seized by our county officials and transferred to developers to build luxury condos and mansions.

Technically, it's a forced sale, or they will sell it for taxes. It's legalized theft. It's a blunt example of reverse Robin Hood. Taking homes from the poor and middle income and selling to the rich.